Revealed: The Top 20 Cases of 2020
The Lawyer’s annual synopsis of the cases to watch is here; featuring a Hollywood libel dispute, AI-related rows and a mammoth banking claim over forex.
Litigation Tracker year in review: the booming sectors in London’s courts
Brick Court and Monckton continued to do well in 2018, cases in the banking and financial sectors stayed plentiful and it was the year that damages were first awarded for follow-on private cartel claims
The Lawyer Litigation Tracker explained
Firms and chambers will be able to chart their court appearances for the first time with the launch of The Lawyer Litigation Tracker. Drawing on data from all judgments in English and Singaporean civil courts from 2015 and 2016, The Lawyer Litigation Tracker is unique, building into quarterly rankings. In this short video, The Lawyer […]
US and French firms lead on billion-dollar payments deal
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Latham & Watkins and Bredin Prat have led on the latest acquisition in the payments sector, which is also the biggest takeover in Europe so far this year. Cleary and Latham joined forces acting as legal advisers to French financial services company Worldline on its acquisition of payments rival Ingenico […]
St John’s Buildings’ quest to automate instructions
The North West chambers linked up with insurance firm Keoghs to dramatically speed up the process of putting together briefings for barristers
Mishcon unveils latest round of partner promotions
Mishcon de Reya has announced its partner promotions for 2023, with seven lawyers joining the firm’s partnership. The firm has made seven promotions to junior equity partner, while another has been made an equity partner in the firm. In 2021, Mishcon tweaked its structure, which saw a large group of legal directors promoted to the […]
Osborne Clarke fills COO role after seven-year gap
Osborne Clarke is broadening out its chief operating officer function, having appointed investment funds partner Tim Simmonds to the role earlier this year. Simmonds has been a partner at Osborne Clarke since 2011 and was previously at legacy Berwin Leighton Paisner. His appointment as COO followed the election of real estate partner Conrad Davies as […]
HogLov and Slaughters take lion’s share of UK Infrastructure Bank work
The UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) has expanded its pool of external legal advisers, with Slaughter and May and Hogan Lovells among its key law firms. Since the start of 2023, the Leeds-based bank has issued contract awards for legal services to Slaughters, Hogan Lovells, Addleshaw Goddard, Ashurst, Pinsent Masons, Mills & Reeve and DLA Piper. […]
Debevoise’s City revenue drops as global income stays flat
Revenue fell by 5.5 per cent at Debevoise & Plimpton’s London office last year, from $173m to $163.3m. Average revenue per partner in London was also down, by 16 per cent to $7.4m, while average revenue per lawyer in the City fell by 12.2 per cent to $1.3m. Globally, Debevoise narrowly avoided posting a drop […]
Kirkland expands ESG group with DLA Piper hire
Kirkland & Ellis has hired a partner in its ESG and impact practice group in London from DLA Piper. Rhys Davies previously served as DLA’s international sustainability and ESG lead. He spent 16 years at the firm and was given the nod to partner in 2017, while he was still in Perth, Australia. He relocated […]
The Nordic 50
This report contains: ranking of the Nordic 50 firms on a headcount basis analysis of the four jurisdictions in the region gender diversity at firms in the Nordic region in focus.
International Litigation Tracker: End of year 2022
This report contains An overview of cases heard at the courts in Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong Jurisdiction specific profiles
Under the hood of Eversheds Sutherland, the UK’s largest litigation practice
This report contains: an overview of Eversheds Sutherland’s litigation practice in the UK analysis of financial performance and headcount metrics a detailed look at the firm’s national approach a breakdown of the firm’s four core disputes practices.
The In-House Sentiment Survey 2022
We are pleased to present the key findings from The Lawyers’ In-house Sentiment Survey sponsored by Gowling WLG. Organisations across the UK are looking at the outlook for 2023 with an abundance of caution. The main question facing UK corporates and their legal teams in the next 12 months is not ‘are we headed into […]
Litigation tracker: End of the year 2022
This report contains: an overview of all judgements and claims at the courts covered by The Lawyer’s UK Litigation Tracker Court specific profiles
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Thanks to the competition lawyers, the busiest team in your firm
As the markets uneasily shook into 2023, much attention was given to the role of restructuring lawyers and the need for firms to bolster their teams. However, there’s an area that’s shown little sign of dwindling in a slowdown: competition. There are plenty of US firms with sizeable, or longstanding, competition practices in London, namely […]
Anything Clifford Chance can do, Norton Rose wants to do better
Law firms are well-accustomed to a bit of friendly – and sometimes unfriendly – rivalry. How else are they to remain competitive in such a merciless market? The ongoing talent wars means firms must be sharp about talent retention, whether that means upping the cash stakes, hastening the track to partnership or getting vocal about […]
Hiring another firm’s managing partner? Surely not
It sounds mad, but this very thing happened twice in Scandinavia late last year
Pay rise, or one-off payment – what would you prefer?
Wage bills are climbing, and it’s not just because of the hefty pay packets of the lawyers. From the executive suite to the postal room, firms are dipping into their cash piles to raise wages for business service professionals (BSPs). How that cash is being dished out, however, reveals the social divisions that characterise the […]
Move over, Leeds. Birmingham’s overtaken you
For growth potential, firms are looking to the Midlands
You’re making your clients miserable
Junior lawyers might think it’s a haven away from the billable hour tyranny, but new research suggests that the in-house legal sector has reached peak crisis mode. The rising complexity of workloads, combined with deepening budget cuts and mis-matched legal resources, means burnout is now a set feature of working life for many senior in-house […]
Mishcon unveils latest round of partner promotions
Mishcon de Reya has announced its partner promotions for 2023, with seven lawyers joining the firm’s partnership. The firm has made seven promotions to junior equity partner, while another has been made an equity partner in the firm. In 2021, Mishcon tweaked its structure, which saw a large group of legal directors promoted to the […]
Osborne Clarke fills COO role after seven-year gap
Osborne Clarke is broadening out its chief operating officer function, having appointed investment funds partner Tim Simmonds to the role earlier this year. Simmonds has been a partner at Osborne Clarke since 2011 and was previously at legacy Berwin Leighton Paisner. His appointment as COO followed the election of real estate partner Conrad Davies as […]
HogLov and Slaughters take lion’s share of UK Infrastructure Bank work
The UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) has expanded its pool of external legal advisers, with Slaughter and May and Hogan Lovells among its key law firms. Since the start of 2023, the Leeds-based bank has issued contract awards for legal services to Slaughters, Hogan Lovells, Addleshaw Goddard, Ashurst, Pinsent Masons, Mills & Reeve and DLA Piper. […]
Kirkland expands ESG group with DLA Piper hire
Kirkland & Ellis has hired a partner in its ESG and impact practice group in London from DLA Piper. Rhys Davies previously served as DLA’s international sustainability and ESG lead. He spent 16 years at the firm and was given the nod to partner in 2017, while he was still in Perth, Australia. He relocated […]
Firms line up to advise on UBS’s takeover of Credit Suisse
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Homburger are among the firms to have landed roles on the historic tie-up of Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse. The merger comes after the intervention of the Swiss Federal Department of Finance, the Swiss National Bank and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, which intervened last week. It […]
Close Brothers sets up in-house litigation team
Merchant bank Close Brothers is to establish an in-house litigation team. The bank has set up a small litigation group led by head of bank legal, litigation, Jessica Wicker. It is understood that the group has been put together as the team works in a more structured and consistent way in relation to litigation. Wicker […]
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